KABUL TRANSIT [trailer]

In the broken cityscape of Kabul Afghanistan, amid the dust and rubble of war,Westerners and Afghans adjust to the uncertain possibilities of peace. Kabul Transitshuttles through the broken streets of the city, moving between public space and private,listening in on conversations, posing questions, probing the darker alleys mainstreammedia avoids. The result is a unique cinematic experience – a shifting mosaic ofencounters and raconteurs, captured glances and telling gestures, all beautifully shotand woven together by the music and the found sounds of a city sluggishly coming tolife. Rejecting the usual device of narration and portraiture, the film asks the viewer toexperience Kabul as a newly arrived visitor would – with a freshness born ofapprehension on finding oneself in a place that is at once hauntingly strange andaltogether familiar.

"Spare, unsentimental and uncompromising...Kabul Transit is a picture of a city in fragments, without intro, commentary or visual aid. Lensing under arduous conditions is superb, lending the pic a big-screen presence."Robert KoehlerVARIETY